What We Do

Our large multi-disciplinary team of experienced professionals have the necessary skills and expertise to successfully manage the most complex of projects. Our clients are the focus of everything we do. We respond promptly to their ever-changing needs by delivering a cost-effective, dynamic and quality–driven service, on time and within budget. We provide a wide range of services to both public and private sector clients. Our public-sector experience spans projects completed on behalf of Government Departments, Local Authorities and State Agencies.

Our Values

Values are the fundamental guiding principles for what MKO does, and how we do it.

Quality

Fit for purpose

Flexibility

Find ways to get the job done

Teamwork

Trust and support each other to deliver

Confidence

‘Can Do’ attitude

Integrity

Do the right thing

Who We Are

MKO is a company of over 70 staff comprising a number of departments including Planning, Environment, Ecology, Ornithology, Estates & Project Management and Finance & Administration. We are a long-established business based in Galway city with staff nationwide and are renowned in our field of expertise.

Brian Keville

Brian Keville is the Environmental Director of MKO with over 18 years’ professional consultancy experience as a project director, project manager and lead coordinator of environmental impact assessments for large-scale infrastructure projects.

Gus McCarthy

Augustine (Gus) McCarthy is a Company Director with MKO and is a professional planner with in excess of 35 years of experience in both private practice and local authorities combined. He is retained as planning advisor for development programmes of large organisations and has been the lead planning consultant a wide range of infrastructure, energy, commercial and other projects throughout the Country.

Dervla O’Dowd

Dervla is responsible for coordinating the ornithological surveys required on major infrastructural projects, with emphasis on wind energy projects and has extensive experience in project management and ecological assessment.

John Hynes

John manages a significant range of energy infrastructure, commercial, national roads and private/public development projects, and has specialist knowledge in Flora and Fauna field surveys, GIS and impact assessment.

Regina Madden

Regina Madden is a qualified chartered accountant with over 8 years’ experience in the SME sector. Regina coordinates both finance and general operations in MKO to include ISO, Health and Safety and training.

Noel Stapleton

Noel Stapleton is Estates & Project Management Director with MKO, with over 20 years of Project Management experience. Noel is highly experienced with specialist knowledge and experience in Feasibility / Development Appraisal consulting, public procurement, delivery of large or complex construction projects within Capital Works Management Framework structures, programme management, master planning, and stakeholder engagement.

Pat Roberts

Pat is highly experienced in the completion of ecological baseline surveys and impact assessment at the planning stage and has extensive experience of providing ecological consultancy on large scale industrial and civil engineering projects.

Jimmy Green

Jimmy leads significant and complex development proposals through the planning process. Jimmy has significant experience in dealing with Strategic Infrastructure Development proposals and bringing them through the planning process directly with An Bord Pleanála.

John McGarry

John oversees the Land Solutions department, with over 10 years’ experience in developing renewable projects in the UK and Ireland. John has specialist knowledge and expertise in securing development rights for projects and brokering agreements between landowners and developers.

Celine Hughes

Ciara McGuinness

Ciara McGuiness is a Planner with MKO, Ciara’s key strengths and expertise are Project Management, Development Management and Masterplanning, Environmental Impact Assessments and Collaborative Planning.

Clíodhna Bourke

Darío Fernández-Bellon

Darío Fernández-Bellon is a Senior Research Ornithologist with MKO. Darío has 15 years’ experience in wildlife conservation and research on international projects covering different aspects of project management, bird survey and monitoring, data analysis, GIS mapping, report and scientific writing, outreach and research communication.

David McNicholas

David works on all phases of wind farm development from feasibility/ scoping, ecological surveys, preparing EIS chapters, construction phase monitoring, Ecological Clerk of Works during construction, and post-construction ecological monitoring.

David Naughton

David Naughton is an Ornithologist with MKO. David is experienced in GIS software systems for use in interpreting ecological data and has also been involved in the management and preparation of datasets for multiple projects.

Eoin O'Sullivan

Eoin O’Sullivan is a Senior Environmental Consultant with MKO, Eoin has wide experience in the project management of large-scale brownfield developments which includes all aspects of geo-environmental and geotechnical investigation.

Joanna Mole

With over 15 years of experience working internationally, Joanna has specialist knowledge in conducting Landscape and Visual Impact assessments for projects ranging from individual houses to large windfarms, cycle route design and landscape contract management.

Jordan Baxter

Joseph O'Brien

Julie O'Sullivan

Julie O’Sullivan is an Ecologist with MKO and has worked on several renewable energy developments, utilising a broad range of bird survey methodologies including vantage point surveys, breeding raptor, adapted brown & shepherd and waterfowl distribution surveys.

Karen Mulryan

Katie Pender

Laoise Kelly

Laoise is an Ecologist with MKO, Laoise’s key strength’s include overseeing project management of invasive species surveys and management plans as well as carrying out site supervision of large scale projects in the form of Ecological Clerk of Works.

Luke Dodebier

Madeline Larkin

Madeline has a wealth of experience in project management and contract administration of large scale mixed use projects. With project experience both at home and in the UK, Madeline has a proven track record of working with multi-disciplinary project teams

Owen Cahill

Owen is a Project Manager on a range of energy infrastructure, commercial, residential, waste facility and quarry projects as well as managing the licensing requirements of a number of EPA licensed facilities.

Patrick Hehir

Patrick Hehir is an Environmental Scientist with MKO, Patrick’s key strengths and areas of expertise are in project management, hydrology, waste management, environmental auditing, site and construction supervision, water quality monitoring and renewable energies.

Patrick Manley

An experienced Ornithologist, Patricks’ key strengths and areas of expertise are in bird surveying and data management. Patrick has undertaken a wide variety of bird surveys for wind farms, solar farms and the NPWS.

Rebecca Higgins

Sarah Mullen

Sarah Mullen is an Ecologist with MKO, Sarah has experience in conducting multidisciplinary ecological surveys and plays a large role in preparing Ecological Impact Assessment reports and Stage 1 and Stage 2 Appropriate Assessment reports.

Stephen Corrigan

Stephen Corrigan is an Environmental Scientist with MKO, Stephen has specialist knowledge in environmental field surveys, database management, geographic information systems and data analysis. Stephen’s key strengths and areas of expertise are in data management and GIS.